i caught a 9.2 pound bass at the chick fil a pond today. i forgot my tape measure but i had my scale it was a really big fish. i caught it on a football jig with a craw fish tail blue and black jig with chartruese claws and orange body. i let the fish go back into the pond but the hook went into its eye like near the eye socket it didnt puncture the eye. do u think its gonna die? has any one else every also caught it? it had a tag on it....

Congrats. That's a Beast!

I've seen bass with only one eye, 
not sure if from a hook or disease,
so not really sure if it'll live or die.

You released it, hope for the best.

3 hours ago, david123 said:

i caught a 9.2 pound bass at the chick fil a pond today. i forgot my tape measure but i had my scale it was a really big fish. i caught it on a football jig with a craw fish tail blue and black jig with chartruese claws and orange body. i let the fish go back into the pond but the hook went into its eye like near the eye socket it didnt puncture the eye. do u think its gonna die? has any one else every also caught it? it had a tag on it....

Of course someone else caught it somehow, if it had a tag! Did you report the tag info? Are you supposed to? Anyway, congrats on taming a monster.  She'll be okay with a damaged eye -- i think. Bass are tough critters.

I've caught bass that were completely blind that were healthy otherwise. They're able to find food in water so dirty you can't see a chartreuse spinnerbait 2" below the surface. As long as they're handled properly, losing an eye isn't at all a death sentence for a fish. 

That is awesome, it was pretty cold yesterday too!!  It should be fine, as others have said, there are a lot of ol one eyes swimming around out there  

Post a pic if you took one!

 

Also, could you read anything on the tag, like TWRA or something?  I've never caught a tagged bass in the ponds before. 

David, have any pics of this fish?  I have caught a big one out of there that had what looked like could have been a tag at one point.  I will try and find the pic

 

Jeff

50 minutes ago, 00 mod said:

David, have any pics of this fish?  I have caught a big one out of there that had what looked like could have been a tag at one point.  I will try and find the pic

 

Jeff

i took a picture but some how it must of deleted or something. my iphone has crazy issues. it had a black tag i think on the top fin i am not 100% sure i have old eyes.

please give me the picture i would defintly recongize it. by the way is it just me or do i also see 1-3 pound bass always on the shore of that pond? i was curios to try to sight fish them nothing worked lol what about you?

I have had very mixed results there and never really fish there anymore. I only caught fish when the water was a bit murky. Mostly smaller fish, and this one big one. It was several years ago, maybe 3 and the fish was mid 6's at the time but seemed old. Still trying to find that pic

Jeff

When I moved to Germantown in 1997 this was the first pond I "discovered". Coincidently, I was first introduced the the Senko about the same time. For more than a decade we caught both numbers and size. During that time the pond had excellent cover, especially during the spawn and into the summer. Then, for what ever reason, the city decided to kill the vegetation. The fishing has been very poor since this action was taken. I don't fish Neshoba much anymore.